Stereoscopic mailing-card.



H. S. GARLEY.

STEREOSCOPIO MAILING CARD. V

APPLICATION FILED JULY 29, 1910.

991,948. Patented May 9, 1911.

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STEREOSCOPIC MAILING-CARD.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 9, 1911.

Application filed July 29, 1910. Serial No. 574,460.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it .known that I, HORACE S. OAKLEY, a citizen of the United States,residing at Hyde Park, in the county of Norfolk and State ofMassachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inStereoscopic Mailing-Cards, of which the following is a specification.

My present invention relates to mailing cards embodying pictorialfeatures in the form of stereographs, and so constructed that thesestereogra-phs may be stereoscopically viewed, my object being to providean improvement with respect to the formation of the card whereby topromote simplicity and enable the same to be marketed at a comparativelylow price.

With this in view my invention resides in the features of constructionand arrangement as shown in the accompanying drawing, forming part ofthis specification, and in which,

Figure 1 is an elevation of rny invention, in its closed position. Fig.2 is a perspec tive view thereof in position to View the stereographs.Fig. 3 is a section therethrough on line 33 of Fig. l.

Referring specifically to the drawing I provide a card comprising a mainor body portion 10, one surface 10 of which is marked, as shown, toreceive a stamp and the addressees name and residence, the oppositesurface 1O being for the reception of the correspondence. The otherportion 11 of this card forms an integral part of, and is slightlygreater in length than, the main portion 10, and is bent against thesurface 1O thereof and provided adjacent its free end with a transverseslit 11 to receive a corresponding tongue 10 at the free end of thecorrespondence portion 10 in order to lock said portions together inface to face relation, thus insuring a card which is prosize nor bulk.The re ceiver of this card will detach the portion 10 from the portion11, by tearing along their line of fold 12, after removing tongue 10from slit 11, and then place tongue 10 in a transverse slit 11 centrallyof the picture portion 11. The portion 10 may thus be held steadily atright angles to portion 11, and by looking at card 11 with the end ofcard 10 at the nose, the figures or pictures 11 at each side of slit llmay be stereoscopically viewed. These figures or pictures may, ofcourse, be upon both surfaces of the card 11.

I claim:

1. As a new article of manufacture, a ca rd comprising a body portionand a picture portion, said portions being folded together, anddetachably connected at one of their ends, and means for holding thesame in folded position, the picture portion having means for supportingthe other portion thereon in position to divide the line of vision whensaid portion is separated from the picture portion.

2. As a new article of manufacture, a card comprising a body portion anda picture portion, said portions being foldable on each other andadapted to be disconnected at the fold, and the body portion having atongue at its free end which is engageable with the corresponding end ofthe picture portion to secure the two portions in folded position, andthe picture portion being provided with a slit which, when the twoportions are disconnected, is adapted to be engaged by the aforesaidtongue for supporting the body portion in position on the pictureportion to divide the line of vision.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

HORACE S. CARLEY. lVitnesses LOUISE C. ARENTZEN, MARGUERITE E. BURNS.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G.

